Just waiting for Todd’s fears to dry up, when he realizes he’ll be wearing a wet-suit, and that the pressure is evenly distributed. Hardly any pressure at all. No danger there.
Now, release the Kraken!

i just remember seeing in various movies and books that when the crew gives a tour to family members they are taken aside by the moe senior officers/enlisted and instructed to specifically point out the Momsen hatch to the family as the “it’ll be OK, if for some reason that we sink and can’t refloat the boat… this here hatch is how we’ll get out” escape scuttle… and when the tour is over and the family has gone away, they inevitably talk to other crew members and find out after the fact, how the thing has never “successfully” been used…

Wow. The boss punishes him by taking away the privilege of working from home? Generally working from home means you get to work MORE for the company– My bosses LOVE me working from home because they get more out of me than they would if I only worked in the office.

Here’s a thought: It’s not a good idea to have a refugee settlement within swimming distance of the people they are refugees from. Putting it in a different lake would be a better idea. There are 10s of thousands of lakes in Michigan alone which would be big enough, and most have maximum depths well within safe scuba diving range for Todd.

i doubt the refugee camp is in the same lake, probably a smaller one thats completely government property in the middle of nowhere….and depending how many refugees we´re talking about, it could be more of a large village then a city. keep in mind that at least some, like pohl and his family, are already living among us. so i would think the camp is more for recent arrivals and those who can´t or don´t want to make a living on land.
also, please don´t make fun of todds fear, it could be a serious phobia triggered by a certain event. taking myself as an example, i swim like a fish and love it, but i´ll NEVER be able to jump in from the pool edge, never mind a diving tower….near drowning is f#ing traumatic!

I wasn’t making fun of Todd’s fear. I said “within SAFE scuba diving range” for a reason: Scuba diving can be dangerous even for the professionals and the deeper you go the more dangerous it gets. Todd has every right to be afraid.

no, but he did pull a “No-call, No-show” at work today, and I’ve worked at jobs where you pull that, you get one warning that goes into your record, and if you do it again, you’re instantly FIRED, as in: “don’t bother to come in, your last paycheck is in the mail…”

as for the boss pulling his “work-at-home” privileges, that probably means that Todd has done his time in the Wage-Slave Cubicles of Mordor and has earned the ability to work from home… that’s cool and all, but I’m sure there is a price attached as well… more likely that restricting you to have to come to the office vs stay at home is a low level disciplinary means and Todd got that as a punishment for not calling in, THAT’S why he’s restricted to have to come in to the office for a while… NOT specifically because the “stuff” happened, but because he didn’t CALL THE Boss to let him know it was happening, and that he’d be a bit late… by the way, we don’t know exactly what he told the boss about what happened either.

hmm, to me it looks like he’s VERY distracted right now… i just hope he’s not going to get into an accident, and throw his job into jeopardy because of even MORE time off from work even after he said that he’s on his way in after dropping Selkie off at school…

Having to keep an employee who has spontaneously burst into leaving early and coming in late on a regular check in for a period is pretty legit, and lenient. Todd’s not getting written up, or loosing other privileges. Considering some of the places I’ve worked, this is being downright nice. Not everyone can just snap their fingers and jump to another position, and if Todd has a good relationship with them except for today, this would be a good reason to stay there.

Fun fact: There aren’t as many Great Lakes as you think. If asked most people will say there are 5 great lakes – Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario – but technically there are only 4. Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are not separated by a section of river, they linked by a strait (The Straits of Mackinac; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_of_Mackinac). That makes them actually one lake not two: Lake Michigan–Huron

Hydrologically one body of water, but geographically (for historical and traditional reasons) usually considered two lakes. The same argument could be made, and sometimes is, that there are only 4 continents and one ocean.